By Kathy Harleman, Gee Stuart and Sue Tepas
Gould’s Directory of St. Louis, in those volumes known as the “Blue Books”, listed “prominent citizens” of the St. Louis metropolitan area alphabetically and then listed street addresses and those who lived there. The term “prominent citizens” is not defined, but these were the only source available to the authors of the just-completed history of the Skinker-DeBaliviere Neighborhood. In the public interest (and perhaps curiosity), we begin here to present a listing of the “F.F.S-DeB.” — the First Families of Skinker-DeBaliviere, as listed in the Blue Books. No one was listed north of Forest Park and Washington University nor South of the middle of Delmar Blvd. until 1908.
1908
Kingsbury Boulevard
6179 — Mr. & Mrs. W.B. Long and daughter.
6185 — Mr. & Mrs. Louis Barklage.
6189 — Mr. & Mrs. James F. Ewing; Mr. & Mrs. R.N. Van Buskirk.
McPherson Avenue
6185 — B.F. Hufft; L.L. Hufft; Miss Hufft; Mrs. O.H. Graham.
6227 — Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Mansur; Charles I. Mansur.
6237 — Mr. & Mrs. C.B. Johnson; Mrs. H.M. Kirkpatrick; Dean Johnson; Ernest Johnson.
6251 — Mr. & Mrs. E. Marquard Forster.
6303 — Mrs. Josephine Schlossstein; Mrs. Caroline Seitz & daughter.
Washington Boulevard
6181 — Mrs. E.F. Quigley; Miss Maud Quigley.
6219 — Mr. & Mrs. F.A. Kansteiner & daughter.
6325 — Mr. & Mrs. Louis Cella.
6349 — Mr. & Mrs. George F. [surname unclear in source: Haid or Raid].
Waterman Avenue
6212 — Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Linneman.
6230 — Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Buck; Mrs. France Wharton.
6231 — Mr. & Mrs. Fred Smith; Fred Smith; Charles Smith.
6235 — Mr. & Mrs. H.B. Gordon.
6241 — Mr. & Mrs. F.D. Bennett; Mr. & Mrs. C.H. Campfield; Mr. & Mrs. W.I. Harrison.
6242 — Mr. & Mrs. T.S. Obear & daughter.
6248 — Mr. & Mrs. Adolphus G. Meier.
6249 — Mr. & Mrs. Alcee Stewart; Miss Mary Sargeant; Miss Martha Sergeant.
6255 — Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Vierling.
Westminster Place
6253 — Rev. & Mrs. R.C. Cave; Elmore Cave; Rhodes Cave; E.P. Cave; Maury Cave; William D.T. Cave.
1909
Berlin Avenue (Now Pershing)
6177 — A.B. Hoffer; Mrs. A. Nacke & daughter.
6179 — Mrs. F. Kreismann.
6185 — Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Whitton.
6187 — Mr. & Mrs. M.C. Cole.
6208 — Mr. & Mrs. F.E. Conrad.
Kingsbury Boulevard
6119 — Dr. A.H. Vordick.
6127 — Mr. & Mrs. Frank N. Horn.
6131 — Mr. & Mrs. W.B. Rose; W.L. Rose.
6143 — Mr. & Mrs. H.M. Robinson.
6151 — Mr. & Mrs. F.W. Sultan.
6157 — Mr. & Mrs. D.D. Purdon; Arthur Purdon.
6158 — Mr. & Mrs. L. Bertram Cady.
6161 — Mrs. Laura M. Baker; Mr. & Mrs. W.D. Collins.
6171 — Mr. & Mrs. G.S. McKinney; Mr. & Mrs. J.B. Fisher.
6174 — Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Egan.
6175 — Mr. & Mrs. Ferdinand Diehm; Miss Bertha Diehm; Albert Diehm.
6192 — Mr. & Mrs. A.H. Frederick & daughter.
McPherson Avenue
6240 — Mr. & Mrs. Frank M. Wright; Mrs. Mary R. Anderson.
Washington Boulevard — add
6139 — Mr. & Mrs. Lafayette D. Lytle; Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Lytle.
6215 — Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Williams.
6228 — Mrs. F.A. Hendrich & daughters; Walter F. Hendrich.
6244 — Mr. & Mrs. E.C. Klipstein.
6312 — Dr. & Mrs. P.C. Barnes.
6321 — Mr. & Mrs. A. Mackay; George C. Mackay.
Waterman Avenue
6102 — Mr. & Mrs. W.J.S. Bryan; Howard Bryan.
6236 — Mr. & Mrs. William A. Hirsch; Miss Fannie Large; Miss Grace Large.
6254 — Mr. & Mrs. F.H. Sullivan; M.F. Block.
6313 — Mr. & Mrs. Edward Mead, Jr.
If your house has been listed here and you are interested in just who these people were, we suggest that you look them up in the Gould’s St. Louis Directory under the year they are listed here, but in the Gould’s called the “Red Book” which lists everyone in the metropolitan area with occupation and residence. These books are on open shelves in the History & Geneology Room of the Main Library downtown.
If your house has not been listed here, look for it next month, when we will continue this column, or the next or the next. We will keep going until every house is listed.
(Information from Gould’s Blue Books is courtesy of the Missouri Historical Society and the Olin Library, Washington University.)
Originally published in The Paper, May 1973.
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Original source: SD_Times1973_05.pdf, printed page(s) 5.
